How to make animal-top jars

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Make tasty treats part of your new kitchen decor with customised jar lids featuring animals painted gold for a bit of benchtop glitz.

How to make animal top jars

Gather your supplies

Plastic animal figurines
Lidded jars
Metallic gold
Spray paint
Sweets and treats

You’ll also need

Face mask
Dropsheet
Plastic primer spray paint
Pen
Araldite

For you to note

If you can’t work in an open area outdoors, you can create a spray booth from a cardboard box.
You’ll need a plastic primer for the animal figurines and an appropriate primer if your jar lids are timber or metal.
Araldite is a rapid setting, two-part epoxy adhesive you can buy with self-mixing nozzles for easy application.

Here’s how

Step 1

Wearing a face mask and working in a well-ventilated area on a dropsheet, put animal figurines and jar lids on scrap timber to elevate. Apply a coat of spray primer. Leave to dry.

Step 2

Centre figurines on lids and mark around their feet in pen.

Step 3

Dab Araldite on base of figurine feet.

Step 4

Position figurines on marked positions on lids and press down firmly. Leave glue to set.

Step 5

Spray figurines and lids with metallic paint. Hold can about 20cm from surface and spray smoothly, from side to side. Multiple light coats are better than 1 heavy coat. Leave to dry after each coat.